HARTFORD'S NEWEST DRIVE THRU

An elderly driver was instrumental in trying to add a new drive-thru window to Damon;s Tavern on Prospect Avenue Saturday evening.

A BREAK IN THE SILENCE, HOMICIDE NUMBER 6

The statistics for shootings and homicides on the HPD website are a month behind, but we are close to 50 percent less homicides this yea...

GOING...GOING...WILL THEY BE GONE?

Hartford is not business friendly when it comes to taxes for companies already in Hartford or companies considering relocating to Hartford. ...

THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

Relax, you have Mastercard. That apparently seems to be the mindset around Hartford City Hall as the cash strapped City continues to spend o...

ANOTHER REASON DAVID MEDINA NEEDS TO BE SHOWN THE DOOR

How David Medina, the Director of Misinformation for Hartford Public School's still has a job is beyond me. Jenna Carlesso at the Hartfo...

DEMOCRACY AT WHAT PRICE?

The official number of Republicans voting in yesterdays GOP primary have been filed. An impressive 158 Republicans turned out city wide, (ye...

ANOTHER WHEEL COMES OFF THE BUS

Hartford's political "machine", if there actually is such a thing, suffered another body blow tonight. The Hartford Charter Re...

A VISION UPDATE

BEFORE PICTURE, JANUARY 2012 TODAY'S PICTURE APRIL 2012 In January, I wrote a post that was very difficult to write, not knowing what th...

WFSB'S HALLIE JACKSON MOVING ON

WFSB's Hallie Jackson will be leaving the Hartford area to accept a new position with the Hearst Television Group in Washington D.C.. He...

HPD UNION OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES PROPOSED CONTRACT

In a vote held today by the Hartford Police Union membership, their tentative new contract was approved with over 300 voting in favor and 11...

MORE OF THAT "SHARED SACRIFICE"

Last Friday, Jeff cohen at WNPR reported on more raises that were being given out to top level employees at Hartford city Hall. Those raises...

HARDLY AN IMPRESSIVE START

The recently formed Hartford Charter Revision Commission held its first meeting, or at least something that was supposed to look like a meet...

A BUSY NIGHT FOR HARTFORD'S DEMOCRATS

This posting is probably not something that will interest a lot of people, but I think it is significant. The entire political process start...

NOT SO QUICK ON CLOSING THAT BUDGET GAP

The chart above is directly from Mayor Segarra's budget book distributed today. Can you see a problem here? Yet there seems to be no tal...

WHY IS HARTFORD SO DIFFERENT?

I constantly wonder why the values and sense of morality are so different from the city where I live and other communities mere miles away f...

MR. MAYOR, HERE'S A CAMPAIGN WORTH GETTING INVOLVED WITH

Pictured above, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra campaigning recently in Orlando, Florida for Mayor Buddy Dyer's re-election campaign Wednes...

CITY AND HPD UNION REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT

Last night the HPD Union and mayor segarra reached a tentative contract agreement, ending an almost two year impasse.Specific details of the...

DADDY TOOK THE T-BIRD AWAY

Well, actually the black Ford Explorer. According to City hall sources, Mayor Pedro Segarra has ordered his Chief of Staff to turn in his ci...

MORE "SHARED SACRIFICE"

City Hall sources are telling me that city employee Union's leadership have been summoned to the "Green Room" in Mayor Segarra...

THE END OF THE DOWNTOWN SPECIAL ?

Every weekend a contingent of Hartford Police officers are hired on overtime to maintain order in the streets surrounding the bars near Unio...

IS THE FLU SEASON ABOUT TO HIT HARTFORD?

The "Blue Flu" that is. It doesn't seem to do much for morale at HPD when the Mayor's Chief of Staff gets a $20,000 a year...